Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sock-a-licious!

Meet one of my new favorite sock yarns. And I promise, it is not just the name that makes me love this yarn.

Although, with a name like Sock-a-licious, it's hard not to love. Now, sing it to this. Hehehe.

For me, it is all about the colors! Those semi-solid colors, the varying shades and depth of color that keep you interested while knitting, look gorgeous knit up, and are perfect for just about any pattern.

I'll admit. This colorway, Chateau, is probably my favorite!

But the color isn't the only reason why I love it! You know I love color, but I'm also a yarn snob. I'll admit it. My stash doesn't really lie. You all know this about me. And this yarn, with 70% Fine Superwash Merino Wool, 10% Silk, and 20% Nylon, well, it feels snobby! It feels so squishy and soft just like some of my favorite sock yarns.

It is going to retail for just under $20 a skein, with each skein having 350 yards!! Told you I love it!

I say going to, because it has just been released by Kollage Yarns and should be hitting the stores soon (ETA: Paradise Fibers is taking pre-orders, yarn arrives next week, oh, and it is retailing there for $18.75)! One of my good friends from Sock Camp, Erica, sent me 3 skeins of Sock-a-licious!! Seriously!! Sometimes its nice to have friends who work for yarn companies!!

Best part, one of the skeins is for you!! Time for a little contest, don't you think!! I saved this gorgeous one, colorway Heather, for you guys (sorry I can't part with the Chateau!). Wouldn't it make a perfect pair of Blackberry Brambles? You don't have to knit it in Blackberry Brambles, but I will be including the pattern with the yarn!

So how can you win this yarn and the pattern? Just leave me a comment of what pattern or item you'd love to knit this with!

I'll admit, this yarn is so nice, I know I'm going to knit some type of cowl or scarflette with it too...want that pretty silk by my face!

Bonus contest.... if you rewrite the lyrics to Fergalicious (doesn't have to be the whole song) with Sock-a-licious (hehehe...because someone should, right??), you'll be entered twice! and the first five song writers will automatically win a copy of Blackberry Brambles!

Contest will run through Sunday morning at 10am.

And yes, I said she sent me 3 skeins. I couldn't wait, one skein is already wound, swatch started and everything!!

Listen up y’all cause this is it,The sock that I’m knittin’s sockalicious.

Sockalicious—definition makes those Dotty Socks locoThey want my fiber but for now they have a photoYou can see me, you can’t squeeze meI ain’t cotton, I ain’t rayonI got silk in me to tease em.Knitters come and beg to wind me.

Holy cow...I want some of that yarn! I can see the yarn as a scarf or shawlette, but who am I kidding - it would probably become socks. Okay, now I am going to see if any online socks are carrying this yarn yet ;)

Any sock design BY IGK would be awesome of course...but I am on a shawlette kick and doing Ysolda's Damson with a swath of garter stitch that the plummy tones of this yarn would be lush and nubbly at the same time and just right to wrap one's neck in the fall...or Saroyan with shade variation cruising through the stockinette breadth...or something yet to be created just in time for fall plummy tones....

I'd make Cotty. I have had my eye on it forever, and every time Gail Neuroknitter does a new pair I think to myself how much I need to get the pattern. So if I had the yarn, I'd buy the pattern and do Blackberry Brambles in something else.

That is very pretty yarn. I have been wanting to try out Cotty and Merrily. But I have also been looking for something semisolid or solid to knit the Long John Socks. This just might be a good fit for that. I can't wait to see what you make with yours, too!!

I would like to knit either Blackberry brambles or the Fruitloop socks from Knitty in this yarn. Of course, I haven't felt it yet - it might want to be a cowl or scarf at my house. Sometimes the yarn demands a certain project.Colleen in Kansas

I absolutely have to knit the Blackberry Brambles I already own in that yarn!!! Then, I might have to dye a skein (as I learned) at sock camp in my version of a Blackberry colorway. I really love the pattern and things two pairs would be lovely. Cross my fingers!

I would have to say I would knit it in your new pattern, Dotty. I have it in my ravelry basket and need to pay for it:). But I have also been admiring your Cotty pattern, which I have only recently found.

Although your sock patterns are among the prettiest I've seen, I have yet to try to knit socks myself. But I have a couple of patterns for small shawls that call for sock yarn that I am anxious to try. I think the Heather yarn would be perfect! Pick me! Pick me!

Oooh, that looks gorgeous! I need some new sock yarn -- too bad none of my LYSes carry Kollage. Blackberry brambles looks great, and I would definitely like to knit Thayer's new pattern Blueberry Bubbles. So cute!

Wow, that yarn is super pretty! Whether I win or not, I'm going to have to get some of it! haha :) I think the yarn would look pretty in your Dotty pattern. I also have a pattern in my head that wants to be knit, so it'd probably look pretty in that, too. :D

WoW that yarn is to dye for...Here's my lyrics...thanks for the fun.Listen up y'all ?cause this is itThe beat that I'm bangin' is Sock-a-licious

Sock-a-licious definitionMake them boys go locoThey want my treasureSo they get their pleasures from my photo

You can see me, you can squeeze meI am easy, I am ssquishyI got reasons why I knit 'emSocks just come and go like seasons

Sock-a-licious(So delicious)But I ain't promiscuousAnd if you was deliciousAll that knittin is Sock-a-licious I knit kisses(Mwah)That puts them socks on rock, rockAnd they be slippin? down the blockJust to watch what I got(Four, tres, two, uno)

Sock-a-licious(It's hot, hot)So delicious(I put them socks on rock, rock)So delicious(They want a tpair of what I knit)Sock-a-licious(T-t-tasty, tasty)

I'm the S to the O, C, K, the O, the LAnd can't no other lady KNIT THEM like me

I'm Sock-a-licious(So delicious)My needles stay viciousI be up in the studioJust workin? With my Sock-a-licious Your my witness(Ooh wee)I put yo' socks on rock rockAnd he be purling? down the blockJust to watch what I got(Four, tres, two, uno)

Baby, baby, babyIf you really want socksHoney, get some patienceMaybe then you'll get a swatch.

Of my Sock-a-liciousI'll be laced with laceyIt's so soft as a daisyIt'll make you crazy

T, to the A, to the S-T-E-Y, girl you tastyT, to the A, to the S-T-E-Y, girl you tastyD, to the E, to the L-I-C-I-O-U-STo the D, to the E, to the, to the, to theHit it Fergie!

All the time I turn around projects gather roundAlways lookin? at me while I knit, lookin? at my(Uh)I just wanna say it now I ain't tryin? to round up dramaSock-a-licious is perfect for yo mama

And I know I'm comin? off just a little bit conceitedAnd I keep on repeatin? how the knittin wanna take itBut I'm tryin' to tell, that I can't be treated like clientele

?Cause they say is so Sock-a-licious(So delicious)But I ain't a newbieAnd if you was suspiciousAll that fiber is Sock-a-licious

I blow kisses(Mwah)That puts them socks on rock, rockAnd they be a wearin ? down the blockJust to watch what I gotFour, tres, two, uno

I'm Sock-a-licious, t-t-tasty, tasty

To the D, to the E, to the L-I-C-I-O-U-STo the D, to the E, to the, to the, to the, to the,

I wish for Dottie. Why? Because I had a lovely Aunt Dot, who loved to quilt with a beautiful colt like this. And-because we used to go berry picking in the Barrens in Northern Wisconsin with her. What lovely memories-thanks for helping me think of those times.